crit of uphamgo

In message <1jVQd.2000$1S4.228183 (AT) news (DOT) xtra.co.nz>, Nik Coughin
<nrkn!no-spam!@woosh.co.nz> writes

Hi all,

Any comments on http://www.uphamgo.co.nz/ ?

Things I am aware of already:
* I'm still waiting on content for the front page and about page.
* The CSS is a little too verbose and needs a bit of cleaning up. Valid
though.
* Need to split off the CSS that is page specific and only load it on those
pages.
* Images take a while to load. Not so bad as the content and navigation are
visible almost immediately.

Cheers!

One thing I forgot to mention:

In IE6, the site exhibits the 'flash of unstyled content' as each page
loads.

That will be caused by hiding all your CSS in an '@import'.

The easiest way to avoid this is to put a:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="./xxxxxx.css" type="text/css"
media="screen"> before the <style/@import/style> -- where xxxxxx.css
just contains a duplicate of some of the (old-browser-safe) css in the
@import.

regards.

--
Jake

jake wrote:

In message <1jVQd.2000$1S4.228183 (AT) news (DOT) xtra.co.nz>, Nik Coughin
nrkn!no-spam!@woosh.co.nz> writes
Any comments on http://www.uphamgo.co.nz/ ?

One thing I forgot to mention:

In IE6, the site exhibits the 'flash of unstyled content' as each page
loads.

That will be caused by hiding all your CSS in an '@import'.

The easiest way to avoid this is to put a:
link rel="stylesheet" href="./xxxxxx.css" type="text/css"
media="screen"> before the <style/@import/style> -- where xxxxxx.css
just contains a duplicate of some of the (old-browser-safe) css in the
@import.

Completely forgot about that, thanks! If I remember correctly using <script
type="text/javascript"></script> works as well.

In message <uCjRd.2318$1S4.272644 (AT) news (DOT) xtra.co.nz>, Nik Coughin
<nrkn!no-spam!@woosh.co.nz> writes

jake wrote:
In message <1jVQd.2000$1S4.228183 (AT) news (DOT) xtra.co.nz>, Nik Coughin
nrkn!no-spam!@woosh.co.nz> writes
Any comments on http://www.uphamgo.co.nz/ ?

One thing I forgot to mention:

In IE6, the site exhibits the 'flash of unstyled content' as each page
loads.

That will be caused by hiding all your CSS in an '@import'.

The easiest way to avoid this is to put a:
link rel="stylesheet" href="./xxxxxx.css" type="text/css"
media="screen"> before the <style/@import/style> -- where xxxxxx.css
just contains a duplicate of some of the (old-browser-safe) css in the
@import.

Completely forgot about that, thanks! If I remember correctly using <script
type="text/javascript"></script> works as well.


You could well be right; I've never tried that approach myself as I

usually supply a fairly minimal CSS file for the benefit of old
Netscapes (e.g. some colours, some layout).

regards

--
Jake